Even if we stopped driving our cars tomorrow, America would still need five million barrels of oil a day - more than all of Southern Europe combined. Imagine it: Rubber, Plastic, Nylon, Aerosols, Resins, Solvents, and Lubricants - none can exist without Oil, still hailed as Black Gold. From the shirt on your back to the waxy sheen of a beautiful apple, the first secret of Oil is that it's everywhere you look. We'll go behind-the-scenes at a Southern California Oil Refinery where the true value of Oil is first unlocked. Then follow the resulting `fractions' as they journey to the ordinary - like make-up or candles or plastic bags - to the extraordinary, including chemical weapons suits. We'll visit Vulcan Materials, where oil tanks are emptied into massive double-barrel mixers to make asphalt, and then continue to the Rolls Royce Aerospace Facility where complex Jet Fuels are blended. We'll journey back into time to see how an unemployed whale oil salesman in the 1870's turned a grea
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Length: 43:54 Aired: 7/31/2008
